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Pre-Internet, the motto for shopping could've been "try and buy." Nowadays, social media and mobile devices add a new dimension to the retail experience. Online tools such as review sites, social networks and smartphones produce data for merchants th...

Facebook will launch a music service later this month, we reported last week. Facebook is partnering with top music services Spotify, MOG and Rdio to let users stream music on Facebook.com. For the uninitiated: Spotify is a service that lets you list...

The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) broke records on both MTV and Twitter. At 10:35 p.m. ET, Beyonce's live performance and baby bump reveal generated 8,868 tweets per second. Trendrr put together this infographic that breaks down the social TV as...

You might want to spruce up that Facebook profile pic, because artist Adam Ellis could interpret it for you using his incisive caricature style of drawing. He calls the series of drawings you'll see in the gallery below "Never Be My Friend," but we'r...

Realtime social media tracker Trendrr provided Mashable with a report highlighting the biggest winners in the social TV space for July 2011. As with June's social TV report, Trendrr has broken down the top broadcast, cable networks and TV shows, base...

The Summer Blockbuster Series analyzes the social media campaigns behind major summer movie releases. Rebooting a classic film franchise is difficult. Rebooting a franchise that already had a high-profile (if critically panned) refresh only a decade ...

For many people, MySpace was their first foray into social networking, and the site was the world's top networking site until Facebook surpassed it in early 2009. MySpace entered the social networking scene eight years ago this month, but the website...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Although it's only been in existence for a month, we've seen a n...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. When we brought you our initial list of five useful Chrome exten...

In the same way that bar codes don't have to be boring, quick response codes can also be creative. Thanks to a 30% tolerance in readability, you can have some real fun with clever designs. Besides looking good, this can also make them more successful...

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable's Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform's new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. If you believe the "unofficial statistician" for Google+, the new social network ...

Now you can get badges for reading Google News. The company is offering a variety of 500 different emblems, each one for a particular topic. As you become more well-read, you'll get a star added to the badge for that topic. There are five different l...

Realtime social media tracker Trendrr has released an infographic detailing the biggest winners in the social TV space in June 2011. Culling data from the Trendrr.tv social TV index, the graphic breaks down the top broadcast, cable networks and TV sh...

Bluefin Labs has introduced a new system of metrics for quantifying and contextualizing social media response and conversations around television content. Bluefin Labs was started as a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab and founded in 2008 with the goal o...

Behind-the-scenes details are starting to pour in after the #AskObama Town Hall event earlier this afternoon, where Twitter users got to pepper the President with 140-character questions. According to both Simply Measured and TwitSprout, more than 70...

On Wednesday, Facebook announced its long-rumored partnership with Skype to bring video chat to the world's most popular social networking site. Video chat is just one of the new features Facebook introduced as part of its Facebook Chat overhaul. SEE...

The Social Media 101 Series is sponsored by Global Strategic Management Institute. GSMI's Social Media Strategies Series are the leading educational events for organizations looking to advance their online capabilities. Learn more. One of the greates...

Twitter has acquired comment tracker turned social analytics platform BackType for an undisclosed amount. On the BackType blog, the company says the team and IP will move to the Twitter platform group. Here, the BackType team's focus will be on "deve...

Now you can get away with cruising around Facebook at work, even when your boss is peering over your shoulder. Well, as long as the boss doesn't look too closely. Even the laziest slacker can look busy in a jiffy with this interactive adaptation of m...

Get Satisfaction has released a new version of its Facebook app. Like its earlier release, Get Satisfaction for Facebook was developed using Involver's app platform. The new version, however, was written using Involver's Social Markup Language (SML) ...

Real-time Facebook newspaper-style aggregator PostPost relaunched Tuesday as Postano. The core of what made PostPost great still exists, but with Postano, parent company TigerLogic is adding more sources and focusing its target audience. PostPost tur...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Marshals Service are holding an online auction, selling off the seized personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as "The Unabomber." As the GSA website makes clear, the proceeds of ...

Publishing platform Tumblr has joined the ranks of social networks Twitter and Facebook by introducing the Tumblr Button. The Tumblr Button is designed to allow content publishers from across the web to better interact with the Tumblr community. On i...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Innobell Quick Pitch: Innobell makes ca...

RockMelt is a cloud-based social media browser that's been available for Mac and PC desktops since November, but now it's available for iPhone. Take a look at the video above, and you'll see that the iPhone version of RockMelt looks a lot different f...

Facebook now offers a potential solution for users who converted their profiles into pages, only to regret the decision after the fact. As reported by Inside Facebook, Facebook has created an appeal form for users who want to reverse course on their ...

Popular social Q&A app Formspring unveiled a brand new version of its site on Monday afternoon. Calling the new site "one of the most significant design evolutions in Formspring's history," the company is introducing new features and enhanced UI and ...

Here's a convincing April Fools' gag if there ever was one. Enter someone's Twitter handle into the form at Tweetforger.com, create a crazy tweet, send your victim a link to the resulting page and watch the hilarity ensue. Even though the graphic the...

Social web browser RockMelt started rolling out RockMelt Beta 2 on Friday. The new version is the "most significant update" yet to the Chromium-based web browser and it touts better chat, more robust Twitter integration and a new "view later" feature...

Update: A kind soul at Facebook reversed course and fixed my account for me. That said, my warning and advice still remain -- try at your own peril! Users who want to migrate from a traditional Facebook Profile to a Facebook Page might want to think ...

The New York Public Library announced a new partnership with Foursquare Wednesday that gives patrons a special "Find the Future Centennial" badge. The new badge celebrates the hundredth birthday of the library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd...

Like death and taxes, spam is one of life's inevitabilities. From junk emails to fake pharmaceutical advertisements to bogus comments on websites like this one, spam is a very real (if aggravating) part of online life. As Facebook emerges as the comm...

It started with a tweet Saturday morning, sounding an alarm of a security breach in the popular microblogging platform Tumblr. "OMG… The Tumbeasts are spitting out passwords!," it warned. That tweet spread like wildfire, notifying the world of a codi...

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